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UPDATE: New Comment Moderation System
Terms of Service
Welcome to the online progressive community at Firedoglake, MyFDL, and their affiliated sites. Vigorous discussion is encouraged but we ask that you be respectful of all who participate in our community. Our moderators may remove any comment at any time. By clicking to register you also agree to additional terms as outlined in our About Us/FAQ.
Tips? Questions? Comments?
Contact Jane Hamsher, FDL founder and publisher, at janehamsher AT firedoglake dot com
Contact My FDL Editor, at MyFDLEditor AT firedoglake dot com
Contact Siun, Press Secretary, at media.firedoglake AT gmail.com
About Us
MyFDL is the community site of progressive political blog Firedoglake. Anyone can participate by writing a diary, commenting on others’ diaries, or joining groups to find other people in their areas. Content posted to MyFDL is the opinion of the author alone, and should not be attributed to Firedoglake.
Read posts from our front page authors or our community members. Or you can write a post (called a diary) or leave a comment yourself.
Once a diary has been published, users can recommend it by clicking the “recommend” link at the bottom of the post. If a diary receives enough recommends, a link to the diary will appear in the MyFDL Recommended Diaries box on the front page of both MyFDL and Firedoglake.
MyFDL was created in October 2010. Your friendly daily editors are Bill Egnor and Ruth Calvo. (Jim Moss is on hiatus.)
DISCLAIMER: MyFDL provides diaries, comment threads and other community-oriented social media features that enable registered users to communicate with others. Participation in MyFDL’s social media is voluntary; users choose what they post. Discretion in posting information is recommended. Information users do not want to make public should not be posted in diaries or comments.
Content posted by community members in MyFDL diaries and comments should be viewed for informational purposes only, and not as a substitute for professional legal or financial advice.
MyFDL does not evaluate or guarantee the accuracy of any questions, answers or other information posted in diaries or comments; all diaries and comments made by community members should be used at community members’ own risk.
MyFDL editors and moderators reserve the right to take down any diary or comment (in part or in its entirety) and ban users at their discretion; please refer to the site’s rules below.
Diaries and comments expressed by each of MyFDL community members are the opinions of the individual community member author and do not reflect the opinions of MyFDL or Firedoglake and its affiliated sites.
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Frequently Asked Questions
• What is MyFDL?
MyFDL is the community site of progressive political blog Firedoglake. Anyone can participate by writing a diary, commenting on others’ diaries, or joining groups to find other people in their areas. Content posted to MyFDL is the opinion of the author alone, and should not be attributed to Firedoglake.
• What’s new with MyFDL?
MyFDL is the third generation of the Firedoglake community site. What began as the Oxdown Gazette evolved to The Seminal, a single group blog and community site. MyFDL is a new platform with many individual blogs. Each user has their own real blog, and can make their FDL experience unique — hence MyFDL.
The new, upgraded application also provides better editing tools. Users will also find more new tools to let them interact more quickly and more often with other community members. All users will now have a more robust WordPress template to write and edit drafts for their posts. We are also introducing threaded comments that allow your reply to appear directly under the comment you are responding to.
• How do I get an account?
At the top right of the main page either click at the very top on “Create a new account at Firedoglake” or where it says Welcome to MyFDL, look for ‘Not a member? Create an account’ – this takes you to the signup page.
• How do I post a diary?
Once you are logged in hit the “Write Post” link in the Tool Box section. Please consider reading Editorial Note: How to Write an Effective Post for pointers on optimum composition if you need help.
• I just posted a diary and I don’t see it in the latest diary section – should I repost?
No, sometimes it takes a few minutes for diaries to appear.
• What embed sites are allowed for videos?
google.com, youtube.com, comedycentral.com, thedailyshow.com, mtvnservices.com, vimeo.com, viddler.com, blip.tv, change.org
• What sites are allowed for hosting graphics?
flickr.com, imgur.com, photobucket.com, imageshack.com, mac.com
Please include only one or two images/videos per diary.
Adding graphics from sites like flickr and youtube is remarkably easy in MyFDL. To add photos or videos, paste the link or URL from Flickr or Youtube into the text box when writing your post, and it should automatically publish.
• How many diaries can I post a day?
We don’t have a hard daily limit for diaries yet. However if you begin spamming the diary section, we will take them down. Out of fairness to other community members, diarists should limit themselves to no more than two posts in the Latest Diaries list, with the with the exception of front page contributors at FDL and MyFDL’s editorial team members. If you have two posts in the list, once your oldest post has dropped off the list you may publish a new post.
• Why isn’t my diary appearing in the recommended box?
Our users choose diaries that appear in the recommend box by clicking the recommend button. We will not reveal the exact methodology to prevent the system from being gamed.
• How do I post a comment?
Once you are logged in a comment box will appear at the end of a thread. If you want to reply to a comment click the “reply” link.
• How do I put those cool quotes in my post?
When including a long quote you might see some text set off from the main body by large quotation marks. To create this effect, called a ‘blockquote’, you type
[blockquote]some text here[/blockquote] – replacing [ and ] with < and >
to get
<blockquote>some text</blockquote>
• What are allowed HTML tags?
Allowed Tags: a, b, blockquote, br, em, img, p, s, strike, strong, u, ul, ol, li, table, thead, tbody, tfoot, tr, td, th
• How do I advertise on your site?
All the information you need it right here.
• What are MyFDL rules?
- No hateful or defamatory writing. (This includes racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, antidisestablishmentarianism, or any other ism)
- Do not use ALL CAPS or exclamation marks in titles. It is poor form and annoying
- Cross posting from your own blog is welcome.
- “Please Recommend” is not a diary title.
- Do not violate any copyright laws — This means do not reprint articles in whole from other websites or news sources, unless you are the author. If you are quoting an article, only use a maximum of two or three paragraphs. At the moment please do not use AP sources AT ALL. For more information about what is acceptable use of copyright material, please read more here.
- We respect anonymity. Revealing the identity of someone who has chosen to remain anonymous is prohibited.
- Do not spam the diaries or the comments.
- No duplicate diaries. (Please check before you post)
- If you are posting a quote or fact, provide a link if possible to an original source or to other supporting material.
- Refrain from calling out other site users, including commenters, in the diary title.
- Our moderators reserve the right to take down any post or ban any user.
- Please do not create diaries to complain about the moderators, editors or site operations. If you have a complaint, make it inside an open thread/watercooler post or email the MyFDL editor.
- Sock puppets are prohibited and grounds for banning.
- Avoid single-sentence diary posts; use a micro-blogging site instead. Posts should be a minimum of 100 words and 2-3 paragraphs, composed with some consideration given to a thesis, analysis or commentary, and a summary. Exceptions to this are posts with art or video embedded; these kinds of posts should contain an explanation of the content at a minimum, with additional analysis and commentary preferred.
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Copyright Information
All users who post on this site retain copyrights to their work. By posting on MyFDL you grant the operators of MyFDL a non-exclusive right to publish your content online on MyFDL and its affiliated sites, its archives, or its future formats in perpetuity unless otherwise negotiated or noted.
